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Catherine Thompson
LL.B. Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Access to Information Coordinator, CIPPIC With a BA in Journalism, Catherine Thompson is helping to draft one of the most complete resources on access to information available. It will cover access rights under privacy and access to information legislation at the federal and provincial levels. She is working under the supervision of CIPPIC Executive Director Philippa Lawson, Digital Discretion President Stephanie Perrin, Ontario IPC’s Assistant Commissioner Ken Anderson and IPC Legal Services Manager Mary O’Donoghue, as well as EPIC President Marc Rotenberg and EPIC Legal Counsel Marcia Hofmann. Research Towards knowing what the watchers know: the Access to Information Manual
We are the targets of profiling. Corporations and governments are watching us through their crawlers, cookies, tax returns and cross-linked databases. Until we find effective legislative and technological solutions, who will defend our privacy rights? Who will watch the watchers?
In the interim, we have but one reliable resource: us. However, before we can begin to insist on our privacy rights, we must know what the watchers have collected about us, how they have been using our information and to whom they have disclosed it to. We also must be able to access government records that shed light on important public policy issues related to privacy. The Access to Information Manual will empower the individual to become their own privacy advocate. Research .:publications:.
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